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...Charles OsBorne, only Updike's drawing and light verse save the Lampoon from falling into the category of dull, soggy reading matter. On the other hand, Updike's Advocate sketch, his poem Famous Americans II, and five snappy drawings are really high quality material--worthy, I believe, of the Benchley, Williams Golden Age of Lampoonery...
...first marriage, one by the second), he lives with a pair of servants in a 15-room Beverly Hills house. He does all the shopping. Afternoons, he works on the two dozen fruit trees that stand on his back lawn; he is a martyr to what Robert Benchley described as dendrophilism, which might be described as tree-tickling. Groucho takes excellent care of himself: he plays golf, never has more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess is cigars. One of his favorite occupations...
...always maintained: that it is not, has not been, nor is ever likely to be even remotely funny. Too busy patting their own dogma, touting their own theories, the "funnymen" have come up with another turkey. The Lampoon has indeed gone a long way downhill since the days of Benchley and Williams...
...story by Oliver Allen '43, concerning a social climber's campaign to ease himself into the New York Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society. Even such greats as F. van Wyck Mason '24 and Robert E. Sherwood '18 are not up to what presumably is their best...
...Much Ado About Studying" is an amusing cross between a Robert, Benchley narrative and a Pete Smith short. It presents the difficulties of a freshman putting in a full evening of study. By professional standards, the photography is dull and the narrative is occasionally repetitive; by undergraduate standards, the short has local interest, includes several ingenious touches, and is 15 minutes of good entertainment...